Friday Update: Twenty-three Ten Twenty-six…

A quieter week in the workshop but progress never the less on several projects both customer and personal this week for us to talk about. Get comfortable, preferably with a hot drink and let’s begin…Etched brass kits are a strange beast really. You get a moving model fairly quickly and a basic shell that ‘looks’ complete in short order but then spend hours and hours adding all the little details. This pair are nearly, nearly finished! I finished off the chassis detailing earlier in the week and moved onto body details and handrails yesterday, there are a few things left to do before I put them in primer and send them home for my customer to paint.A fairly straightforward project this week has been the re-motoring of a pair of old friends! I built this pair a few years ago for a customer who supplied the kits and chassis. They’ve come back for some Tramfabriek conversions which worked beautifully and are much smoother and quieter performers now.A rather exciting hint of a project to…